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1 " Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so. "
― Robert Bresson , Notes on the Cinematographer
2 " Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. "
3 " My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. "
4 " Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. "
5 " Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create "
6 " Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden. "
7 " Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle. "
8 " be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence. "
9 " Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. "
10 " Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. "
11 " The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure. "
12 " One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power. "
13 " Traduire le vent invisible par l'eau qu'il sculpte en passant. "
14 " L'oeil superficiel, l'oreille profonde et inventive. Le sifflement d'une locomotive imprime en nous la vision de toute une gare. "
15 " Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir. "
16 " Bâtis ton film sur du blanc, sur le silence et l'immobilité. "
17 " There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art. "
18 " A l'assurance des acteurs oppose le charme des modèles qui ne savent pas ce qu'ils sont. "
19 " Un cri, un bruit. Leur résonance nous fait deviner une maison, une forêt, une plaine, une montagne. Leur rebond nous indique des distances. "
20 " Make visible, what, without you , might perhaps never have been seen "
